Chapter 74

"You can talk to me, Hazel."

Maybe I could talk to her, but I didn’t know if I wanted to. I was a bit angry with her too, for teaming up with Alpha Arthur to lie to me.

I had a right to know who I was and why they needed me. Why did the Alpha need me? If they wanted to use me, I deserved to know that too. I might be lesser and of no class, but that didn’t annihilate the fact that I was a human.

"Stop seeing yourself as a human, Hazel. Maybe that knowledge might sway your crazy, thoughtless decision to live in a world where nobody or nothing is related to you."

"Shut up, Lia. Whatever you say won’t sway my crazy, thoughtless decision. You might have forgotten so soon how you were in chains, but I haven’t."

"Me being in chains never meant you should flee to a world where you have nothing."

"Stop saying I have nothing."

"But it’s the truth. It might be grating to your ears, but it is what it is. I once told you this, and I’ll repeat it again: o